Hooray! I got in to Managua yesterday night and Nina was there to greet me without a hitch. And I´m glad I went without bags so I could be the first one out the door where everybody had to stand around for presumably a lot longer, THEN all go through customs at once.
So anyway. My Spanish is awful , but not so bad I wasn´t able to: 1) get a cab to the bus station, 2) get a bus to Granada, 3) apologize to the guy next to me that my feet were so big (we were kind of crammed in there and I had my hiking boots on,) and 4) get on this computer.
The place I stayed at last night was a nice-sized apartment that two girls normally share, but currently it was holding both of them as well as myself, Nina, and two other germans. And, for some reason, they had mattresses enough for everybody. At least when layed out in a grid, occupying most of the living room. Oh, and they have a cat. A fiesty one. They are all very nice.
And yes, I said thank you.
In anticipation to your questions: no, I have not yet had Nicaraguan food or coffee. That is my next stop. Also, Managua is ok. It´s kind of big and confusing and it doesn´t really have a downtown, and the part of it on the lake is not a nice place to go to because it smells. Or so they say. So this is why I am in Granada instead. (that and to not further feel like I was intruding, no matter how welcoming the apartment-havers were. plus Nina is in meetings and seminars all day, starting at 5am today until late tonight, and tomorrow would be the same. So sounds like time to go somewhere else on my list!)
Granada is like the Pondicherry to Managua´s Chennai. At least in my opinion. It´s supposed to be the oldest european-built city in the Americas. I don´t know for sure about that, but it certainly is very old. But even nice, tourist-friendly cities make me feel awkward when I´m alone and have no idea what´s going on, so I´m going to try to head all the way to Ometepe island tonight. That´s the island with 2 big ol´volcanoes on it, and the primary reason I brought my hiking boots.
I´ll let you all know how that works out! As for now, onwards to coffee and food and hopefully some kind of tourist center.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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coffee and volcanos= awesome enough for me to type this out on the iPhone.
That sounds nice. Or maybe I have a warped idea of what it looks like. I assume we cannot really hope to see pictures while you are there? Anyway, I hope Alphonso is working over time.
On a side note, I looked for books on Nicaragua when I was at the library today, and the only one I found was basically just full of photographs of people staring awkwardly at the camera.
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